sheeling

Boys following us keep offering to carry our packs for 'wan sheeling.'

Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel) shelby hiatt 2010

The first sheeling took place before Noon, in all there were 14 artillery attacks up to the point it was detsroyed at 7pm by a precision misile.

Archive 2006-07-01 Charles Anglin 2006

The first sheeling took place before Noon, in all there were 14 artillery attacks up to the point it was detsroyed at 7pm by a precision misile.

An act of terrorism Charles Anglin 2006

She then moved up the brook until she came to the ruined hamlet, where, pausing with a look of peculiar and softened interest before one of the gables which was still standing, she said, in a tone less abrupt, though as solemn as before, ‘Do you see that blackit and broken end of a sheeling?

Chapter LIII 1917

Then, as before in O'Regan's sheeling, all the fury of the savage came upon him; his eyes blazed fearfully -- the white froth of passion, or rather of madness, appeared upon his lips, and his bowlings resembled the roaring of some beast of prey, while tearing up its quivering victim in the furious agonies of protracted hunger.

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

She then moved up the brook until she came to the ruined hamlet, where, pausing with a look of peculiar and softened interest before one of the gables which was still standing, she said in a tone less abrupt, though as solemn as before, 'Do you see that blackit and broken end of a sheeling?

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

She then moved up the brook until she came to the ruined hamlet, where, pausing with a look of peculiar and softened interest before one of the gables which was still standing, she said in a tone less abrupt, though as solemn as before, 'Do you see that blackit and broken end of a sheeling?

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

She then moved up the brook until she came to the ruined hamlet, where, pausing with a look of peculiar and softened interest before one of the gables which was still standing, she said in a tone less abrupt, though as solemn as before, 'Do you see that blackit and broken end of a sheeling?

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi’ a new-fangled machine 9 for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship’s ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheeling-hill.

Old Mortality 2004

“Each one give me a sheeling, and a little bit more for luck?

The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003